GROUP Secundum Characterized by the caespitose habit, the numerous coriaceous leaves, the generally elongate peduncle to pluriracemose inflorescence with brightly colored flowers generally pollinated by hummingbirds, with the caudicles of the pollinarium granulose, and the tetrads appearing like a loose stack of roof tiles.
GROUP Secundum
Epidendrum × obrienianum Rolfe 1888 A naturalized hybrid in Hawaii between GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Calanthum and GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Elongatum
There are three subgroups Amphiglottium, Secundum and Elongatum
GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum
Characterized as a subgroup by the bicallose lip with a central, narrow, long, wavy keel, the column is apically high and the anther is generally decumbent.
GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Elongatum
Characterized by the complicated, tuberculose callus on the lip, with a low column, with an incumbent anther.
Characterized by the short plants less than 8" [20cm] tall
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 430 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 063 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 0671 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 190 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 452 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 647 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 649 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 4 Plate 452 Hagsater 2001 see recognition section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 701 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 714 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 737 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 747 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 748 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 761 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 778 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 786 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 8 Plate 803 Hagsater and Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 848 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 8 Plate 877 Hagsater & Sanchez 2006 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 9 Plate 909 Hagsater & Sanchez 2007 as group schistochilum subgroup calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 plate 1104 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Grop schistochilum subgroup calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1105 Hagsater 2008 as Schistochilum Subgroup calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1125 Hagsater 2008 as Group schistochilum Subgroup calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1130 Hagsater 2008 as Group Schistochilum Subgroup Calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1150 Hagsater 2008 as Group Schistochilum Subgroup Calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1168 Hagsater 2008 as Group schistochilum Subgroup calanthum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1410 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1486 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1491 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 15 [1] Plate 1516 Hagsater & Sanchez 2015 as Group amphiglottis Subgroup secundum see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1605 Hagsater & Santiago 2018 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1623 Hagsater / Santiago 2018 photos fide; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1} Plate 1659 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1715 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognintion section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1717 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognintion section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1745 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognintion section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1749 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1758 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1775 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1787 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(2) Plate 1797 Hagsater & Jimenez 2020 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 18(1) plate 1816 2020 see recognition section; * Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1849 Hagsater & Jimenez 2011